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    Love at First Bark: How Saving a Dog Can Sometimes Help You Save Yourself
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    Love at First Bark: How Saving a Dog Can Sometimes Help You Save Yourself
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    Love at First Bark: How Saving a Dog Can Sometimes Help You Save Yourself

    Published by Penguin Random House Audio

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    About this audiobook

    Unabridged, 3 hours

    The bestselling author of You Had Me at Woof shows how saving a dog can sometimes help you save yourself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 18, 2011
    ISBN9781101523612
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    Love at First Bark: How Saving a Dog Can Sometimes Help You Save Yourself

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    • 3/5
      A fast read, especially if you love animals.
      Reviewing for BlogHer.
    • 5/5
      I loved this little book. The author, Julie Klam writes engagingly so it is so difficult to lay this book down. It was almost like having her sit beside you and tell the three stories. I love stories about animal rescues and feel so bad for the animals in tough situations like they are in this book. Julie Klam does animal rescue in addition to her regular job, is married and has one daughter and four dogs at home.The first one is about finding Morris. He has got to be the most lovable pit bull in the world! He licks, he sings, he cuddles. Someone left him tied up on a street in New York to fend for himself with food or water. The title of this chapter is "Morris the Pit Bull, Couples Therapist". This is my favorite chapter and I will never forget what happened, what Morris was like and what he did for Julie and her husband besides the couple's devotion to him that long harrowing day. The second part of the book is about Clementine, a dog who was said to have a malabsortion problem and was fecally incompetent. Although, Julie shies away from problems of this nature, she immediately wanted to help out Clementine. Read the story of this little endearing dog.The last part of this book is Julie's experiences in the New Orleans animal rescue program after Katrina. I have read one part of the story before and when I was reading this part, the whole thing connected. This is a true story that is now part of the legends of New Orleans. This is the tale of Jarhead. If you haven't heard of this before, be prepared to be amused, very sad and mad all with the reading of this story.I recommend this book to everyone who love to rescue animals and all who love dogs.
    • 4/5
      Julie Klam is a sucker for dogs. But not just any dogs. She is drawn to the abandoned, the needy, the unruly and the incontinent. In short, she loves the dogs who need her the most. In her second memoir about her life with dogs, Klam offers up several true to life adventures about dog rescue.Love at First Bark is a slim, very funny look at what it means to foster and adopt fur children. I used to foster German Shepherds for GSD Rescue of Northern California – and much of what Klam writes had me nodding my head in agreement because dogs who find their way into rescue are often the most difficult and the most loveable. But between the lines which made me chuckle, there are some poignant moments: the pit bull who is found tied to a lamp post with cigarette burns to the tops of his feet, the abandoned and starving dogs left behind in Katrina’s wake, and the young pup who suffered for days with a jar on his head because of the cruelty of some kids.What Klam does so well is to lace her book with humor while still revealing the tragedy of abandoned and unwanted animals. She also reveals what dogs bring to our lives – the chance to mend a broken relationship, the opening of our hearts for someone less fortunate than ourselves, and unconditional love (and kisses) just for being there.I read this book in just a few short hours and enjoyed it. Readers who love animals (especially dogs) will see themselves in Klam’s book.Recommended.